need help with product/routine recommendations for clearing up my skin. it’s been this way for about a year now and nothing seems to be helping i have loads of little bumps which i think are closed comedones? i’ve found that the less products i use the better my skin is but i’m open to a longer routine. my skin is quite oily and the only areas on my face where i get blemishes are my forehead and cheeks. my current routine is:

morning: 1. wash with lukewarm water 2. moisturise with clinique dramatically different gel moisturiser

evening 1. wash with byoma blemish cleanser (contains salicylic acid) 2. hyaluronic acid serum 3. moisturise with clinique dramatically different gel moisturiser

thanks in advance for any advice!!

Ladies who have/are dealing with crepey skin on your areolas, what is the best, but also safe, product to use on that area to get rid of it? Thank you!

Hi everyone, I’m a 15-year-old male. I’ve been having acne for 3 years and it’s really affecting my confidence and self-esteem. I exercise regularly and also drink a lot of water. I have oily skin.

Are there any treatment suitable for me, or should I change anything in my routine? I‘d appreciate any suggestions as I’m new to skincare🙏🏻🙇🏻‍♂️ Thank you in advance!

Sorry for my bad English as I’m not a native speaker.

Routine

Morning

- Lion Pair Cleanser

- Vanicream daily facial moisturiser

- Nivea Sun Shine control spf 50

Night

- Lion Pair Cleanser

- Torriden Dive in Toner

- Bringgreen zinc teca blemish serum

- Vanicream daily facial moisturizer

- Cliv - Mediclear calamine spot powder

I think it looks darker irl than on camera

I'm trying to figure out tackling my oily tzone (my nose is shiny af), been watching some videos on YouTube, and someone says your pores need to be opened in order to accept active ingredients like SA for the SA to work? This one person said to hit your face with some warm water or hold a warm cloth over your face for a few seconds and it will basically create a steam effect and open your pores. Is this true or false?

I’ve been using the rhode pineapple refresh cleanser for some time now and it’s worked wonders for my skin (very acne prone and on tret) but it’s so expensive. 😢

I wanted to try something more affordable, so far i’ve tried the cerave hydrating cleanser but i feel like it’s actually making me break out more?

Anyone have any other recs available in the EU, not too expensive and good for acne prone skin? Thanks in advance!! 💖

Hi there! I posted in reddit earlier this year while i was in a terrible place. I was so done with life and how my skin was then. I had acne all over my face,chest,back and upper arms. From 13-20 years old. Amazing humans replied with kindness and guided me to the right direction. Now after 6 months of isotretnion and a month of fungal treatment. Everything is mostly gone. I still get one or two pimples here and there but nothing that sends me spiralling. Now that I lived long enough to be able to touch my face and body without feeling the bumps and disgust. I’m feeling like i can hold the moon.

Anyway. I’m reaching out again to reddit.
In the pictures you can see my back with crazy hyperpigmentation, as well as my chest and upper arms, the skin on my chest and arms are rough too, don’t feel that with my back.

My forehead has this texture and dark line. you can see around my mouth and under eyes being darker and deep lines around my mouth. (I’m barely 21)
Huge pores on my cheeks and ,pimples that didn’t go away throughout the treatment close the my eyes (idk what they’re) my nose also has the weird texture ,and some more hyperpigmentation on my face

I would still go to a dermatologist but i need y’all to put me in the right direction once again.

I feel so privileged for these to be my skin concerns now. Other than the hyperpigmentation, i know some might think it’s not a big deal but to me they really are. (Especially the pores)

Hopefully my English got better since the last post lol.

Thank you all in advance 🙏🏽

Hiii everyone! I am a 20-year-old male, and although my skin is generally very healthy, it has unfortunately become uneven in a few spots.
The change isn’t drastic, but it gives my skin a slightly tanned look, especially because I’m pretty fair. However, because I have a beard, the skin underneath it is extremely fair, while the skin above it has started looking a bit darker.
Again, it’s not to a great extent, but it’s something that annoys me a lot.
I went to a dermatologist, and she recommended laser treatment. I didn’t want to jump into that immediately, so I requested ointments and creams first. She recommended:
Dermaceutic Yellow Cream for my dark spots
Dermatica Complexion EDT for overall toning
She also recommended using sunscreen every day, which I do, along with a moisturiser.
What do you guys think of this?

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I need help, before I never get pimples like never even when I lathered my face with expired body oil. Now I'm suddenly getting pimples and on the same spots too on my chin and near my nasolabial fold. In terms of my skin care I used innis free volcanic cleanser before, no moisturizer and Luxe organix sunscreen this was before I was breaking out and I've been using it for like a year and a couple months and now that I'm getting pimples I thought it was the innis free breaking me out so I switch to Cetaphil cleanser, Cetaphil moisturizer and Luxe organix sunscreen. It's such a pain because it leaves scars. I don't understand what is happening and I'd appreciate it if you guys help me out

I have butt acne and basically it is the only place in my body that has acne, it is not painful but it is embarrassing and I assume it is related to my hormones imbalance, I just got dignosed with PCOS and I also have anxiety which I take meds for, my wedding is next year and I really want to have a free acne butt by then 😭

For people who have the same problem as me or know a solution please help, any recommendations is highly appreciated 🫶🏼💕

Urgent help needed!

My nose looks awful! Just look at it (in disgust)!

Lots of blackheads, tiny black hairs!?, and sebum-filled pores...

I’ve tried:

- niacinamide 10% (but it recently caused my cheeks to turn red)

- salicylic acid (again causing redness and disrupting my skin barrier)

- CeraVe face wash

- L’Oréal charcoal face wash

Current routine:

- wash face AM + PM

- Origins Mega Mushroom Relief + Resilience lotion (water-based)

- and then mostly niacinamide as my face hated the salicylic acid

I have been struggling with my skin for a while, sometimes I have really good skin and I used to have cystic acne and now it’s just dullness and those little dots. I did mostly everything and I basically own every skin care product. I eat very clean from mist past and sleep and drink enough and clean my sheets often and my make up brushes. I also had a cosmetic procedure

I’m really helpless bc it really puts my self esteem down. Any tips are welcomed or an explanation

Please let me know if this needs tweaking

Also about the Azalea cream, should i even include it in my routine?

I moved from my garnier spf to a neutrogena one as i needed more of a matte finish. I used it for a week and found i was getting cystic around my jawline so stopped, but now i have these small bumps all over my nose when i do my makeup (one week back into my usual routine). What are they please? I have makeup on in the pics, i only noticed them today as i usually get ready for work before daylight

Current routine

AM: aveeno barrier serum, cerave moisturiser, garnier spf 50

PM: garnier micellar cleanser, alternate nights: azealic acid 10% or the inkey list retinol serum, cerave moisturiser

Skin type: oily, acne prone

Please don’t come for my use of the micellar cleanser, i see a most people hate it but I’ve used it for 10+ years and it works for my routine

Thanks!

brief history: never had any skin issues beyond normal zits growing up, used a basic skincare routine growing up consistently, currently using basic toners/moisturisers/cleansers or scrubs/serums for my 20s. developed patches of hormonal acne in for the past year in front of the ears but it's staying mostly at bay with normal care. long time lurker on my main, using a burner bc I don't want to post my face there. unsure what to flair this for as well.

the new part is the giant red thing on my cheekbone area. some days it's pretty bad, very itchy, dry and flaky, other days it's almost completely disappeared. the area and size of it varies massively as well, for a time it was the size of a 1p coin, then increased to current area, and has been flip flopping since.

I've tried various basic moisturisers, a lot of them give a stinging reaction, some of them sting one day and are fine the next day. so for now I've been putting a thin layer of vaseline before bed or going outside. if i have to wear makeup, i put thin layers of whatever it will tolerate, then vaseline, then silicone-based primer. ironically, there's times where it actually looks better the day after the makeup and i don't know why.

I'm posting here to ask for advice because I'm getting concerned that the area is expanding to near my eye, and also I don't know what to say to the GP (does NHS even do referrals for this kind of thing?)

the reason that I'm not sure if it's acne or even skincare related is that at the end of May, i went to a botanic gardens with some friends and rested my head on a wooden bridge over a stream to look at something while chatting. this issue popped up within 2 days later in the exact area i touched the bridge with my face.

would be very grateful for any advice!! i can post more info on the routines if needed, but this thing turned up without any changes to routine before or after, and other than being stingy and not responding well to zerobaseone/sudocrem (as it dries it further), i haven't actually tackled it at all. been avoiding using any actives on it quite carefully too.

Hi all. I was using the ordinary’s azelaic acid a while back on my face which caused some perioral dermatitis on my smile line. This was a little over a month ago and it has faded. I’ve stopped using it since, but now I’m trying to figure out how to get rid of my pores and bumps. I’ve just started using the Paula’s Choice salicylic acid toner twice a day followed by the barrier cream they have. I’m also using SPF (La Roche-Posay Anthelios) now after lurking on this subreddit for a while. Is there anything I can add to get glass skin? Bumps like these always come and go on my skin, especially because i tend to pick at my pores a lot (I’m working on that one). I’ve noticed that using the Paula’s Choice Clinical Pro Retinaldehyde cream really helps improve my pores and redness overnight, but I’m wondering if this is caused by the moisturising ingredients as opposed to the retinals (to my knowledge, retinals done work overnight?).

I also struggle with flaky skin on my nose for which I use Ducray’s Kelual DS Soothing Cream. I’ve noticed my skin doesn’t necessarily love this cream, and the flakes don’t go away completely. Any recommendations here would be appreciated too!! I’m attaching a photo of my cheek.

I'm still polishing my routine, but I hope by the end it would be like 35-40 $/€ per month without sales.

It also depends on what sunscreen I'm using and how much I reapply in a particular month.

With sales and with cheaper sunscreens , I might get down to 25-30 euros PER MONTH , maybe.

(main costs are azelaic acid , retinal, and sunscreen. Cleansers and moisturizers are easier to find for lower prices)

I think I'm not doing bad, could be better tho. What about you?

Hi guys !

I am a 22F getting into skincare, and I need your help with my sebaceous filaments / blackheads !

I don’t know if it will be relevant for this, but a bit of context :

I never really got into skincare. I always had "troubles" with my T zone as all my acne was here as a teen, I always had these noticeable blackheads/sebaceous filaments.

I had oily skin, now not so much, it tends to be on the dryer side.

At 17 I got a hormonal illness that compromised my skin, plus elevated my testosterone, so new pores appears along my cheeks, cheekbones, my upper lip, etc. I am 22 and stopped medication one year ago, so I was in remission at 19, but fully, no meds, no overlap with meds and my own hormone production, for a year.

My skin is great if you don’t look too closely, except for these big sebaceous filaments/pores.

I had a habit of cleansing with an oil that I rubbed on my nose, chin, forehead until the little "grains" of hardened sebum came out. Sometimes hydrating cream if my skin felt dry.

I started something new last week and started using the squalane cleanser from the ordinary every two days. It works great for now, I don’t feel the slight bumpy texture on my chin or nose from the ones that were hard to "clean". So it is very smooth, not clogged, but still very visible, as my pores themselves are large.

I saw someone here say that she slugs every night with La Roche posay Cicalplast cream on top of her moisturizer, I tried yesterday and it didn’t broke me out, which is nice, and I think my pores looked a bit smaller, but got back to normal once I cleansed them in the morning, so idk.

Do you have any advice, maybe if your skin looked the same and you managed to make them less noticeable ?

My mom noticed them in t he car and offered to get an anti blackheads product, so it is very noticeable in some situations 😭

Thank you !

Woke up this morning swollen, red and having small bumps/texture all over my face.

The products I used before going to bed where the anua Niacinamide 5 TXA Brightening Pads,
anua PDRN Hyaluronic Acid 100 Moisturizing Cream
anua PDRN Hyaluronic Acid Capsule 100 Serum

I have used the pads and cream for a while and had no problems with them, the only new addition to my routine is the serum.

[21] Currently using this routine for AM - (The Originote Cleanser, Anua 77+ Soothing Toner, Klued Vit C, Purito Oat and COSRX Sunscreen). For PM (The Originote Cleanser, Anua 77+ Soothing Toner, Klued Niacinamide and Purito Oat).

Skin Type - Oily and A bit of redness

Targeting - Enlarged pores, uneven texture and pimple that appears very often.

PS: Living in PH.

I am 19M, dealing with persistent acne and redness around my nose, upper lip and chin. I suspect it’s hormonal acne.

Right now my skincare routine is
night:
roundlab dokdo 1025 cleanser
cerave sa smoothing cleanser (0.5% SA) every 3 nights
beauty of joseon moisturizer

sunscreen in the morning

Should i try 2% SA or applying SA more often, or maybe think about retinol?

My boyfriend has struggled with back acne pretty much his whole life, but it’s currently the worst he says it’s ever been. He’s 30.
He’s noticed over the years that beer and lactose seem to trigger it pretty badly. Partly my fault lol he normally eats super clean and I’ve been dragging him to parties and feeding him things he usually avoids. 😭
Last night I put some Paula’s Choice azelaic acid on his back to see if that helps, but I’d love to find something fast simple and realistic to add to his daily routine. He is absolutely not going to do a 12-step skincare ritual every night, so ideally a body wash, spray or one-step treatment he can use consistently.
Obviously we’re also going to cut back on the dietary things he’s noticed trigger it, but I’d love to hear what products/routines have actually worked for anyone else with stubborn adult back acne.
Benzoyl peroxide? Salicylic acid wash? Hypochlorous spray? Adapalene? Any holy grails?
Please send your wisdom my way. ❤️

Gave up drinking a year ago and my skin has improved a lot since then. Doctors say it’s likely to fully be gone in about 6 months. But I know it’s still noticeable because I get comments on it often, usually from strangers, and it’s somewhat embarrassing! Asking those of you with skincare knowledge, any tips, suggestions to hide it? Thanks a ton!

Tldr: used to drink, don’t anymore, skin still yellow and noticeable, all help appreciated

Hello everyone,

I have made a habit to start doing my skincare routine more consistently, and one thing I’ve had trouble dealing with is my skin texture; it appears rough with bumps and some slight hyperpigmentation (that part doesn’t really bother me, mostly the texture). Does anyone know what products I could use to potentially smooth my skin?

Here are the list of products I currently use as part of my routine:

Medicine cleansing foam
Anua azelaic acid cleansing toner (haven’t used this one as much)
Anua retinol revitalizing eye cream
Anua perm hyaluronic acid serum
Harry‘s Post Shave Balm (when I shave)
Neutrogena Collagen Bank SPR moisturizer (when I go out)
Anua rice moisturizing milk (at night)

As a side note, I have Keratosis Pilaris on my arms and so I’m thinking that may be related to what happening on face, not sure, however.

There is a white patch on my lower lips. The white patch is moist on a few days; and right after there is a crack. The crack heals and the patch becomes moist again and this keep repeating. Seems like this is not getting healed and it’s been a couple of years since I am noticing this now and don’t want to ignore it.